MikeFThe Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges into Prosecutors
"The U.S. justice department had declined to prosecute Donziger, so the judge in his case, Lewis Kaplan, appointed Chevron’s attorneys to prosecute him – how’s that for judicial bias? By the way, Chevron’s gripe against Donziger? He won a $9.5 billion judgement in 2011 against the company for oil pollution in Lago Agrio, Ecuador decades earlier."
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The Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges into Prosecutors
So the truth is out: the three so-called liberals on the supreme court are phonies. More precisely, they, like most of their conservative brethren, are corporate hacks. We learned this a couple of weeks ago, when the high court ruled against Steven Donziger, a climate-activist attorney, long persecuted and then literally prosecuted by Chevron. In a pro-corporate decision about as subtle as a heart attack, seven of the nine justices declined to hear Donziger’s appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron. Two far-right justices dissented.